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[31 January 2017]

NACLIM short films

Four short documentary films were made during the 51-month project lifetime, the first film demonstrates the perspective of the project - what we need to find out (Part 1, 2013), the second film is about the monitoring activities in the Atlantic Ocean (Part 2, 2016), the third film represents some of the project outcome, theimpact of climate change on cities and our lives (Part 3, 2016)and the last filmThe North Atlantic Climate - the project and what we've learnt (Part 4, 2017)rounded up the target of the project, the effort we have made and what the project has achieved.

After 4 years of intensive work, the EU funded project NACLIM has come to an end. The project closed on the 31st of January 2017, with 60 reports to the European Commission and around 80 publications. NACLIM (02.2012 – 01.2017) stands for "The North Atlantic Climate". The project has enabled the scientists to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that control the ocean circulation in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, how these mechanisms interact with each other and how they affect global climate change. The output of the observations in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans is integrated into a surveillance system that can operate as a prediction system for the climate of 15 to 25 years ahead. Within the project our scientists also tried to understand the phenomenon of more frequent and higher intensity extreme weather events, such as heat waves and in particular the urban heat island effect, so that the end-users (such as European cities) can prepare for this better. The project was run by 18 research groups with over 60 scientists from 10 European countries.

This is the 3rd part of the NACLIM film. The project aims to better understand the effects of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans on global climate change. Climate change is predicted to cause more frequent and higher intensity extreme weather events, such as heat waves. Within NACLIM, scientists are trying to find out how to prepare our society for this. In particular European cities which experience the urban heat island effect are being studied.Three European cities have been involved in the research studies. Griet Lambrechts from the municipality of Antwerp, Sara Dionísio from the city council of Almada, as well as Jörn Welsch from the senate of Berlin explain the needs and expectations of their cities. Scientific clarification is provided by our scientists Dirk Lauwaet from the Flemish Institution for Technological Research (VITO) and Catherine Stevens from GIM Belgium. Andrea Tilche from the European Commission summarises the necessary measures to enhance climate science and climate services in Europe.

This the 2nd part of the NACLIM film. In the EU funded NACLIM project, scientists from different European institutions take measurements in the ocean from Greenland to the Bahamas with concentration on 3 regions: the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, where the exchange between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas takes place, the Subpolar North Atlantic, and the Subtropical North Atlantic. The continuous observation data will form the input to improve the ability of models, and using these models future climate changes could be predicted.In this part of the film, our scientists Barbara (Bee) Berx from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (MSS), Laura de Steur from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Gerard McCarthy from the Natural Environment Research Council UK (NERC) and the project coordinator Detlef Quadfasel at University of Hamburg (UHAM) speak about the observational activities carried out in the project and the findings so far.

This is the 1st part of the NACLIM film, a short introduction to the main challenges our researchers are facing to in their investigations on climate variability in the NACLIM project (www.naclim.eu). NACLIM stands for "The North Atlantic Climate", after the first introduction, the other 2 films will follow in 2015 and 2016 to demonstrate the monitoring system and to explain the impacts of climate variability on human health (heat stress in cities) as well as oceanic ecosystems.In this video, one of our senior scientist, Mojib Latif of GEOMAR, explains the importance of understanding the mechanisms of climate variability in the North Atlantic area.

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[28 September 2016]

International Conference on Climate Science and Climate Services

[All presentations are downloadable in the Member Only Area under "4a. Annual Meeting 2016"]

Conference programme published | The ECOMS cluster (EU FP7 Projects EUPORIAS, NACLIM and SPECS) are organising an international conference on observational programmes, climate research and climate predictions relating to the development of climate services in Europe on seasonal to interannual timescales. The conference will take place at the Met Office in Exeter, UK on 5-7 October 2016. The conference is by invitation only, for about 200 international participants.

NACLIM will hold its final general assembly prior to the international conference. Project review by core theme and work package leaders as well as 12 science talks will take place on 4th of October.

A new record in mixing of surface and deep ocean water in the Irminger Sea has important consequences for the Atlantic overturning circulation

NACLIM's scientists Femke de Jong and Laura de Steur of the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have shown that the recent temperature changes in the Irminger Sea between Iceland and Greenland can be explained through regional ocean-atmosphere interaction during the cold winter of 2014-2015. This rejects a hypothesis which posed that increased meltwater from Greenland weakened deep water formation and caused the cold blob. The article by de Jong and de Steur is accepted by Geophysical Research Letters and has appeared online (read full story of NIOZ press release)

[21-22 June 2016]

2 days workshop on "Urban Climate Services and User-Needs"

The 2 days workshop in the EC quarter of Brussels focused on the demonstration of the usefulness of Urban Climate Information. Project partner VITO and GIM (WP4.2) were leading the workshop. Together with the policy makers, cities and industries we discussed about the opportunities, barriers and challenges in the research and interaction among different stakeholders. Many thanks to the lively exchange among the participants, and the great contribution from the speakers of EC DG research and innovation, ECMWF Copernicus, ICLEI, GERICS as well as EU/regional projects and the city municipalities.

NACLIM's presentations and posters at EGU 2016 are available to download

[19 April 2016]

NACLIM's work on "BlueFin Tuna in Greenland" featured in Nature

"Cold truths at the top of the world" - As it pursues independence, Greenland seeks to develop its economy without ruining one of Earth's last pristine places.

By Julia Rosen, nature

The houses of Narsaq gleam in a cheerful riot of blues, reds and yellows. The crayon-coloured town spills across a hill that separates barren mountains from a fjord filled with icebergs. But up close, grimmer details come into focus; the paint on many homes is peeling, and few signs of life stir in the narrow streets.

Established as a trading post in 1830, Narsaq long served as a hub of Greenland's fishing industry — the backbone of its economy. But in the past few decades, modernization has moved much of the fishing offshore, and many jobs in Narsaq have disappeared. The town's 1,500 residents have been struggling to find a way forward.

Workshop Registration: Urban Climate Services for Cities in the European Commission Programme

The EU research project NACLIM investigates the impact of the North Atlantic Ocean on European climate. As a more applied activity within the project, European climate information has been downscaled to yield local urban climate information in the form of maps. This was done for the three selected cities in Europe: Almada (PT), Antwerp (BE) and Berlin (DE). Based on the outcome, it has been shown that

(1) cities experiencetwice as many heat wave days as the nearby rural surroundings, and (2) towards the end of the century, cities will be facing up to a tenfold increase of the number of heat wave days.

Moreover, as a demonstration of the use of local urban climate information, our scientists mapped human exposure to heat stress, and have been running scenario simulations to evaluate the impact of urban green infrastructure as a climate adaptation measure.

We believe that the methods developed and applied in NACLIM and other large scale European projects with the comparable subjects (EUPORIAS, Urabn SIS and Cities in Transition) to assess and predict urban climate are potentially very valuable for many cities and private stakeholders in Europe.

Hence, the goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the usefulness of Urban Climate Information, and to explore opportunities, barriers, and challenges with the end-users together to turn science into viable urban climate services.

The 1 - 1.5 day workshop consisting of presentations, panel and interactive discussions will be held at the Vleva building in Brussels, the location is very close to the European Institutions.If you have any questions, please get in touch with Catherine at catherine.stevens@gim.be or Chenbo at chenbo.guo@uni-hamburg.de.

New Deliverables Published

Following Deliverables have been submitted to the Commission on 31st December 2015

D23.47 - Report on the estimate of a heat and freshwater budget for the Arctic Mediterranean and North Atlantic in relation to the main physical processes (FMI & UHAM) restricted access, go to Intranet

‘Go with the flow': Research on the current in the subpolar North Atlantic

Contribution from NIOZ1) - NACLIM - OSNAP2) | Summer 2015, a film made to demonstrate the work carried out in the subpolar gyre by scientists from various large-scale collaborative projects, and to raise social awareness of the significance of observation/the role of North Atlantic ocean in our life.Summary about the film (NIOZ): Oceanographic research carried out in the North Atlantic Ocean is of great importance to understand the role of the ocean in our climate and future climate change. Scientists collaborate in large international projects in order to continuously measure the subpolar Atlantic at key geographical locations.

1) NIOZ: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

2) OSNAP:Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program - an international program designed to provide a continuous record of the full-water column, trans-basin fluxes of heat, mass and freshwater in the subpolar North Atlantic.

Photo: Ricardo Salomão 2015

[30. 09. - 01.10.2015]

NACLIM General Assembly 2015

NACLIM's general assembly 2015 took place in Almada, Portugal from September 30th to October 2nd, 2015. As one of the three end-user cities the City Council of Almada works closely with the work package (4.2) on the impact of seasonal to decadal-scale climate (variability) on urban areas and their populations. Almada is also the nearest city to North Atlantic among the three partner cities, which has a strong relevance to the project.

At the beginning of the annual meeting, Mayor of the city Almada Joaquim Estêvão Miguel Judas and the Head of Environment Division Catarina Freitas gave a speech to the group, it was not just a welcome speech to over 50 scientists, but also a substantial talk about climate change and challenge to human life, especially in the urbanized era.

Central topic of this year was the "Uncertainties and key problems on Observation and Modelling: for a better understanding of climate systems". There sessions with 17 talks were presented on model uncertainty, observational uncertainty and initialization of model systems and the suitability of the observational system. Following the talks of the central topic, 12 talks on various topics, especially the impact studies on ecosystems and urban systems (urban/regional heat stress and human health effects) have been presented.

33 talks fulfilled the two days annual meeting, more details can be found in the agenda (as of 2014-09-24). Scientific talks and other presentations are available to download in the intranet. If you are not part of NACLIM's community, you may get in touch with project office to ask for access to the member only area.

[21 - 24.07.2015]

NACLIM's contribution at U.S. AMOC International Science Meeting (21-24 July 2015, Bristol, U.K.): "Towards a holistic picture of the ,Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ,via observation modelling and synthesis" are available to download at Dissemination Activities

II - Maximizing the Schedule, Laura de Steur | Since we arrived at the moorings sites in the northward flowing Irminger Current on the Reykjanes Ridge, we have been working around the clock. With all 5 moorings recovered in two days, and needing to deploy those again soon, the days seemed too short... (more on OSNAP's Blog)

NACLIM presented by Fraser MacDonald (SAMS) at the Marine Measurement Forum 56 in Liverpool, organizer of the MMF56 is the National Oceanography Centre U.K. The event focuses on interactive exchange among research institutions and commercial organizations on topics ranging from scientific research, instrumentation and survey projects of marine science. The day provides the ideal opportunity to network and share ideas with others working in the ocean industries.

RV Pelagia underway to the Irminger Sea

* Laura de Steur | NIOZ * After a bright sunny day of getting RV Pelagia ready in Reykjavik, we are well underway to retrieve and redeploy 12 tall oceanic moorings in the Irminger Sea which contribute to the NACLIM and OSNAP programs. We expect to arrive to the first mooring site on the Reykjanes Ridge this Friday morning to start servicing the 5 NIOZ moorings in the Irminger Current and do CTD stations and float deployments. After that we head west to collect all 5 NOC moorings in the Deep Western Boundary Current and take CTDs up to Greenland, if possible. In addition, the German CIS and Dutch LOCO2 moorings in the central gyre will be serviced. All moorings will be deployed again for another year. (Photo: Laura de Steur)

In a city it is always a few degrees warmer than in the countryside. Extreme events such as heat waves reinforce this temperature rise and lead to health problems caused by heat stress exposure... read more

Photo: J. Greinert GEOMAR

[23.06.2015]

Remarkable success with current Poseidon expedition - POS486: Most of the planned work at Denmark Strait has been done on schedule, overflow moorings recovered after 3 years in the water // follow @naclim and @stephendye from CEFAS

[12.06.2015]

New publications in Geophysical Research Letters, Ocean Science, Climate and Cliamte Dynamics

The Atlantic Is Entering A Cool Phase That Will Change The World’s WeatherIFLSCIENCE | June 1, 2015 | by Gerard McCarthy and Ivan Haigh

The Atlantic Ocean’s surface temperature swings between warm and cold phases every few decades. Like its higher-frequency Pacific relative El Nino, this so-called “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” can alter weather patterns throughout the world. The warmer spell we’ve seen since the late 1990s has generally meant warmer conditions in Ireland and Britain, more North Atlantic hurricanes, and worse droughts in the US Midwest... read more

[01.06.2015]

Heat stress exposure maps (WP 4.2 Impact on Urban Systems) are now available for NACLIM's stakeholders, the city of Almada Portugal, Antwerp Belgium and Berlin Germany. 51 maps represent the average number of heatwave days per year versus socio economic data per statistical unit. The average number of heatwave days per year has been modeled over the reference period 1986-2005 using the present land use / cover situation for the cities. Go to info sheets.

Enduser status report Q1 2015on Urban Heat Island (UHI) user requirements and specifications updated. The aim of the quarterly report is to update the enduser cities (Almada, Berlin and Antwerp) about the progress of the work done within the WP 4.2 (climate impact on urban systems) and the planned activities for the next period.

[05.05.2015]

NACLIM will be present at the U.S. AMOC International Science Meeting (21-24 July 2015, Bristol, U.K.): Towards a holistic picture of the ,Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ,via observation modelling and synthesis | Topic 4: Novel approaches to pan-Atlantic observations, modeling, analysis and synthesis. Visit RAPID for further information.

[12 - 17.04.2015]

Is the Overturning Slowing Down? - No significant sign in Faroe Bank Channel and Denmark Strait

Increased oceanic heat transport in the main Atlantic inflow branch to the Nordic Seas 1993-2013 by Bogi Hansen(Download)

On the origin and propagation of Denmark Strait Overflow Water Anomalies in the Irminger Basin by Kerstin Jochumsen (Download)

Around 10 NACLIM members attended this year's EGU conference. Talks and posters addressed the North Atlantic variability, the predictability in the Nordic Seas, urban climate as well as management and outreach of EU funded research projects. The presentations and posters are available to download @ DisseminationActivities.

New Publication in Science of the Total Environment: A study of the hourly variability of the urban heat island effect in the Greater Athens Area during summer

Accepted on 17 February 2015, H. Hooyberghs and B. Maiheu from NACLIM CT4 are the co-authors.

Abstract: Measurements of air temperature and humidity in the urban canopy layer during July 2009 in 26 sites in Athens, Greece, allowed for the mapping of the hourly spatiotemporal evolution of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. City districts neighboring to the mountains to the east were the hottest during the afternoon, while being among the coolest during the early morning hours. While during the early morning some coastal sites were the hottest, the warm air plume slowly moved to the densely urbanized center of the city until 14:00–15:00, moving then further west, to the Elefsis industrial area in the afternoon. Results from the UrbClim model agree fairly well with the observations. Satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) data from AATSR, ASTER, AVHRR and MODIS, for pixels corresponding to ground stations measuring Tair, showed that LST can be up to 5 K lower than the respective Tair during nighttime, while it can be up to 15 K higher during the rest of the day. Generally, LST during late afternoon as acquired from AATSR is very near to Tair for all stations and all days, i.e., the AATSR LST afternoon retrieval can be used as a very good approximation of Tair. The hourly evolution of the spatial Tair distribution was almost the same during days with NE Etesian flow as in days with sea breeze circulation, indicating that the mean wind flow was not the main factor controlling the diurnal UHI evolution, although it influenced the temperatures attained. No unambiguous observation of the urban moisture excess (UME) phenomenon could be made.

By Koen De Ridder, Dirk Lauwaet, Bino Maiheu from CT4, accepted on 07 January 2015.

Abstract: We present a new urban climate model, further referred to as UrbClim, designed to cover agglomeration-scale domains at a spatial resolution of a few hundred metres. This model is composed of a land surface scheme containing simple urban physics, coupled to a 3-D atmospheric boundary layer module. In the land surface scheme, urban terrain is represented as an impermeable slab with appropriate parameter values for albedo, emissivity, and aerodynamic and thermal roughness length, and accounting for anthropogenic heat fluxes. The UrbClim model is subject to several validation exercises, using observations from Toulouse (France), Ghent and Antwerp (Belgium), and Bilbao (Spain), and considering turbulent energy fluxes, wind speed, and urban–rural temperatures. Despite its simplicity, UrbClim is found to be of the same level of accuracy than more sophisticated models, including for the complex terrain characterizing the Bilbao area. At the same time, it is faster than high-resolution mesoscale climate models by at least two orders of magnitude. Because of that, the model is well suited for long time integrations, in particular for applications in urban climate projections.

Published online 26 January 2015, Steffen Olsen from NACLIM CT3 is one of the co-authors. View the article at Nature Online

Warming Arctic enables exchange of fish species among Pacific and Atlantic. [The Carbon Brief] For millions of years, fish species in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans have stuck resolutely to where they belong, kept from venturing between oceans by the cold water of the Arctic.

But new research suggests a warming Arctic could soon see fish putting aside their differences and bridging this chilly divide. And this could have implications for native species and commercial fisheries, the researchers say. Read more [>>]

[2 February 2015]

New Publication in Nature Communications: Wet or dry future Sahel? Difference between extra-tropical and tropical ocean warming will give the answer...

A new study entitled “Northern-hemispheric differential warming is the key to understanding the discrepancies in the projected Sahel rainfall” by Jong-yeon Park, Jürgen Bader und Daniela Matei (CT1) was recently published in Nature Communications. They considered the question of whether the Sahel will be wet or dry in the future and found out that the difference between extra-tropical and tropical ocean warming will be decisive.

The work was financially supported by the German BMBF RACE and MiKlip projects in the frame of an internal MPI-M project Tropical VIBES, with contribution from NACLIM scientist Daniela Matei.

Updated Newsletter and Status Report for End-Users online:

Updates are available quarterly, the series of newsletters and reports can be viewed at Urban Impacts

[08 December 2014]

Brochure for End-User online

The North Atlantic and Climate - The links between ocean, climate and the impacts on urban society...The data collected in NACLIM will be used to validate and run global climate models (GCM). NACLIMS's partner VITO uses the GCM data to run urban climate models with much higher resolutions and restricted spatial scales (e.g. cities). The output of the VITO urban climate model can be mapped against socioeconomic factors to create heat risk maps and understand the socioeconomic costs of heat waves in urban environment... More information about science in NACLIM and impact on urban societies can be viewed here:

Changes in the leadership of the CT2 and of the WP2.1: Karin M. H. Larsen (HAV) replacing Svein Osterhus (Unires) as lead in WP2.1. CT2 now led by Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR) and Karin M.H. Larsen (HAV) [>>]

Article on"Tuna follow global warming to Arctic" published by Sunday Times of London

Sunday Times journalist Jonathan Leake recently ran an article based on Brian MacKenzie and Mark Payne (DTU) research paper describing the arrival of bluefin tuna off Greenland. Download the Sunday Times article [>>]

NACLIM is on Twitter!

Follow us on Twitter, if you have an account, and we will be happy to follow you too and re-tweet your tweets. Our account is: @NACLIM

[20 August 2014]

Bluefin tuna caught at east Greenland

Brian MacKenzie (DTU Aqua) "We have recently published a research paper showing that bluefin tuna were present at east Greenland in summer 2012. This location (approx. 65.5 deg. N.) is much farther north than its usual summer feeding habitat, but the warm conditions that year seemed to be suitable for the tuna. The warm water also attracted some of the tuna's favorite prey, such as Atlantic mackerel. This is the first time bluefin tuna have been reported so far north in Greenland water". For more details, go to the Media Center [>>]

[19 August 2014]

Re-installing moorings in the Labrador and Irminger Sea: NACLIM group on RV THALASSA 6-26 August 2014

The NACLIM cruise MSM40 on board French vessel RV THALASSA started on the 6 August 2014 in St. Johns, Canada. 14 scientists are on board to primarily re-install a number of moorings in the Labrador and Irminger Sea. The observations contribute to the scientific analysis in the NACLIM WP2.2 (Transports in the subpolar North Atlantic), but also contribute to other efforts such as the “Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program” (OSNAP), the Canadian VITALS project, the US “Ocean Observation Initiative” (OOI) and the German “Regional Atlantic Circulation and Global Change” (RACE) project.

The second status report UHI (second quarter 2014) is now available

UHI stands for "User requirements and service specifications". The aim of this document is to update the NACLIM WP4.2 end-users on a quarterly basis on the progress of the work and the planned activities for the next period.

First NACLIM progress report is available

This is a report covering the first 18 months of the project (Nov.2012-April 2014) and includes detailed information of the different work packages, the management report and update on the overall activities of the project.

The report has been sent to the EC with the financial reports in June 2014. A review of the EC on the activities and results is planned for summer 2014.

Joint CT1-CT3 topical meeting, 19-20 March 2014, Hamburg (DE)

The meeting was held at Max Planck and saw the participation of scientists of the core themes 1 and 3.

Goals of the meeting: providing an overview of work in progress and/or future work planned regarding 'influence of SST/sea ice on atmosphere and atmospheric predictability; atmospheric influence on SST/sea ice.

Discussing how to identify possible cross-institutional collaboration and joint studies, like extending analysis to more than one mode.

The North Atlantic Climate: what we need to find out... a short video-story

This video is a short introduction to the main challenges our researches face in their investigations on climate variability in the North Atlantic. This is the first video of three, the others will follow in 2014-2016 and explain the impacts of climate variability on human health (heat stress in cities) and on oceanic ecosystems.

Report on Arctic research funded by the European Union

The European Union has supported polar research through a large number of collaborative projects, among others NACLIM and THOR, read more [>>]

[12 February 2014]

3rd End-User Meeting, 10-11 February 2014, Brussels (BE)

The representatives of the three cities (Almada, Antwerp and Berlin) acting as end-users for the WP 4.2 met in our scientists for an update on thee progress in the implementation of the urban climate simulations. Presentations and reports on the event can be accessed in the intranet [>>]

[20 January 2014]

Progress report on first 12 months of the project now available

This is a summary report of the progress achieved in the work packages in these first 12 months of activity (November 2012-November 2013). In addition to this, the report offers a look forward indicating the plans for the upcoming 12 months. Read the full report [>>]

[13 November 2013]

New paper on the Arctic–Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

Eldevik, Tor, Jan Even Ø. Nilsen, 2013: The Arctic–Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation*. J. Climate, 26, 8698–8705. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00305.1 Abstract: The Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation is an important modulator of global climate. Its northern branch extends through the Nordic Seas to the cold Arctic, a region that appears to be particularly influenced by climate change. A thermohaline circulation is fundamentally concerned with two degrees of freedom. This is in particular the case for the inflow of warm and saline Atlantic Water through the Nordic Seas toward the Arctic that is balanced by two branches of outflow. The authors present an analytical model, rooted in observations, that constrains the strength and structure of this Arctic–Atlantic thermohaline circulation. It is found, maybe surprisingly, that the strength of Atlantic inflow is relatively insensitive to anomalous freshwater input; it mainly reflects changes in northern heat loss. Freshwater anomalies are predominantly balanced by the inflow's partition into estuarine and overturning circulation with southward polar outflow in the surface and dense overflow at depth, respectively. More quantitatively, the approach presented herein provides a relatively simple framework for making closed and consistent inference on the thermohaline circulation's response to observed or estimated past and future change in the northern seas.

WG1 Contribution to the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can be downloaded from this page of the IPCC website http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.UoNvX-KFfBI Here you can either download the full report in PDF; or access the specific chapters.

In the same page, you can also find another document (30 pages) in PDF, addressed to policy makers. This is the "Summary for policy makers", in its version of 11 November 2013. This summary follows the structure of the WG I report and the narrative is supported by a series of overarching highlighted conclusions which provide a concise summary. Main sections are introduced with a brief paragraph in italics outlining the methodological basis of the assessment.

[24 June 2013]

The EU Adaptation Strategy

[MCCIP News June 2013] "Adaptation to climate change is crucial for reducing the risk and damage from current and future impacts of climate change in a cost-effective manner and to exploit potential benefits. The European Commission adopted an EU strategy on adaptation on 16 April 2013. The European Union (EU) has published its first climate adaptation strategy, based on three main themes: promoting action by member states, ‘climate proofing’ EU–level action; and providing better information to support decision–making."

NACLIM Gender Panel: first interim report on gender indicators

In the first 6 project months (1 November 2012-30 April 2013), 27 women have been working for the NACLIM project. This corresponds to approx. 43% of the entire workforce employed by the project in this corresponding period.

Read the full report in the section "Deliverables & publications" [>>]

[23 May 2013]

NACLIM was at the event "The Atlantic- A shared resource" 23-24 May 2013, Galway (Ireland)

The objective of this event was to provide a vision for enhanced cooperation on both sides of the Atlantic and a set of jointly agreed priority actions to provide the means to achieve these goals. Recognizing the essential role of international partnership to achieve shared objectives and the potential of greater cooperation to advance our knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Presidency together with the European Commission invited the involvement of international partners in tackling the challenges confronting the citizens of the North Atlantic coastal states. Realising this potential demands not only the ability to make observations and obtain data, but an understanding of ecosystem functioning and interactions and an ability to model, forecast and predict the ocean system.

Three cities selected for the case study on urban impacts

Three are the cities selected for the studies on the urban impacts in the WP 4.2 "Impact on urban societies". End-users have been selected in the three cities to become the NACLIM case studies. Read more [>>]

[7 March 2013]

Project fact-sheet and NACLIM flyer online

We have published in February the first version of the NACLIM fact-sheet. Part of its content have been also now made available in the 2013 version of the NACLIM flyer. Both documents will be updated on a 18-month basis with the achievements of the project and are available in the Media Center section of the website [>>]

The European Commission together with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and IPCC is organising his international conference. The Conference will start with a High Level Event, comprising the presentation of the IPCC WG I Report (AR5) in the presence of the EU Commissioners, for Research & Innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard. This will be followed by a Stakeholder Session, involving regional policymakers and representatives of various business sectors. The unique setting of this Conference, in particular on the first day, provides a special opportunity for participants from policy and business sectors to meet science and to discuss key issues related to climate change.

CT2 Meeting: 5-6 March 2013, Hamburg (DE)

We are planning a two-day NACLIM CT2 meeting in Hamburg, at the Institute of Oceanography, on 5 and 6 March 2013 to make plans for the coming field season and new publications. A more detailed agenda will follow soon.

This meeting is addressed to all scientists of the WP 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3

Please confirm your attendance to: naclim@zmaw.de

[4 Jan. 2013]

Article upon NACLIM project in Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Michael Gross, science writer, published an article on the findings in the THOR project -now finalized- and the expectations for the NACLIM project in a German science magazine, Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Read the article [>>]

NACLIM project is financed by European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Theme 6 Environment, Grant Agreement 308299